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List Of Dos CommandsA list of DOS commands for Microsoft's DOS operating system follows. Beginning with version 6.0, the user could get help by typing HELP in the shell prompt. Square brackets indicate optional parameters, while italicized items should be replaced with specific values. In the list below, when a command can accept more than one filename, or a filename including wildcards (* and ?), it is said to accept a filespec parameter. Commands that can accept only a single filename are said to accept a filename parameter. Commands attrib - Change or view the attributes of one or more files. It defaults to displaying the attributes of all files in the current directory.
Options: - To add an attribute attach a '+' in front of it.
- To remove an attribute attach a '-' in front of it
- Attributes include
- A - Archived (used mainly by file archiving software)
- H - Hidden
- S - System
- R - Read-only
attrib +|-ahrs filespec - Roughly equivalent to the Unix command
chmod. cd or chdir - Change current directory.
cd directory - Equivalent to the Unix command
cd. cls - Clears the screen, except for the command prompt.
cls - Equivalent to the Unix command
clear. copy - Copies files from one location to another. The destination defaults to the current directory. If multiple source files are indicated, the destination must be a directory, or an error will result.
copy filespec destination - Equivalent to the Unix command
cp. del - Deletes files.
del vikas - Equivalent to the Unix command
rm. deltree - Deletes a directory along with all of the files and subdirectories that it contains. Normally, it will ask for confirmation of such a drastic action.
deltree /y directory - No direct Unix equivalent. Use
rm -r (or -rf for the /y switch). dir Main article: Dir (DOS Command) - Displays contents of a directory.
Options : - /w : Wide list format
- /p : Pause at every page
- /s : Also look in subdirectories
- /axx : Display files with the specified attributes only
- /oxx : Modifies sort order
dir options filespec - Equivalent to the Unix command
ls (the option -l is "long" list format, it works the opposite way from /w.) format - Delete all the files on the disk and reformat it for MS-DOS
- In most cases, this should only be used on floppy drives or other removable media. This command can potentially erase everything on a computer's hard disk.
- /autotest is an undocumented feature. Adding it formats the drive without a confirmation prompt.
format options drive Known as a joke among UNIX users of that time since every user on the machine could easily cause damage with just one command. Therefor, it was known in the UNIX community as "The big DOS timesaver". - No direct Unix equivalent, although
dd and mkfs are equally dangerous. InterLnk - MS-DOS 6 and above command to network PCs using a null modem cable. See also: null-modem. InterLnk is the client-side program (InterSvr is the server) which mapped the drives of the machine running InterSvr to the local machine.
- No Unix equivalent.
InterSvr - MS-DOS 6 and above command used to network PCs using a null modem cable. The server-side version of InterLnk, it also immobilizes the machine it's running on as it's an active app (As opposed to a TSR) which must be running for any transfer to take place.
- No Unix equivalent.
label - Changes the label on a logical drive, such as a hard disk partition or a floppy disk.
label drive - No Unix equivalent, as Unix does not use drive labels.
md or mkdir - Create a directory
md name - Equivalent to the Unix command
mkdir. more - Pages through the output so that you can view more than one screen of text.
command | more - Equivalent to the Unix command
more. move - Moves a file.
move filename newfilename - Equivalent to the Unix command
mv. pcpark - Parks the hard disk(s) (stops their turning) in order to enable safe shutdown; only used on early versions.
pcpark - No Unix equivalent.
rd or rmdir - Remove a directory, which must be empty of files.
rd directory - No direct Unix equivalent. Use
rm -r. ren - Renames a file.
ren filename newname - No direct Unix equivalent.
mv does the same job when working within the same volume. restart - Restarts the computer, on many motherboards
restart - Roughly equivalent to the Unix command
shutdown -r. time and date - Set/display the date and time
date time - Equivalent to the Unix command
date. tree - Shows the directory tree of the current directory
- Options:
- /F (Displays the names of the files in each folder.)
- /A (Use ASCII instead of the extended characters.)
tree options directory - No direct Unix equivalent, but for example
du can display a directory tree. type - Display a file. The more command is frequently used in conjunction with this command, e.g. type long-text-file | more.
type filename - Equivalent to the Unix command
cat. ver - Shows the version of MS-DOS you are using
- Some versions of MS-DOS support an undocumented /r switch, which will show the revision as well as the version.
ver /r - No Unix equivalent, but
uname -a displays system information. xcopy - Copy entire directory trees.
xcopy directory destination-directory - No direct Unix equivalent. Use
cp -r. External link
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